Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-25

NlctlOhS ana mas dared 10 speak mere as
he will vote. Why? Because it would
challenge attention to this conspiracy be-
tween those that once were opposed TO US
and who are now 'our friends ana
The wealth OF this country and
the metropolitan press of this country.
deny that the great dailles of the cities
speak the sentiment of the country. They
DO not do it. They are tue advocates and
mouthpieces of wealth, aggregated IN the
communities where they are published,
and am sorry to say. and confess it
Win shame, that this same wealth is OPP
posed to our soldiers. Before | sit down
wish TO ask the chairman of the COM
mlttee Mr.. Matson) whether he has in
MS pocket petition signed by Grover
Cleveland asking Congress to pass the
service pension bill to put all soldiers on
the pension roll"
THE CLOSING SPEECH.
Mr.. Matson. of Indiana, closed the de-
bate. He would not attempt, he said, to
indulge in any imaginative flights or
make any oratorical display. He desired
TO speak plainly, and he spoke for himself,
Tor the committee, for the bill and for no
one else. He believed that the President
mad the right to veto legislation on other
IMAM constitutional grounds, and he be-
lleved that the present Executive had in
many instances wisely made use of that
right. 1t had been his pleasure and bis
duty to stand here and defend the Presi-
dent when that officer had interposed his
objection to Legislation. He would be
glad If he could stand to-day and support
the Presidents veto and present to the
country an united party in support of
that veto If his conscience and his heart
would permit it. But he was driven and
lmpelled to take the course he had because
and only because he believed it to be his
duty as Legislator to ask the House to
pass this bill over the veto OF the Presi-
dent. There was no parallel between this
bill and the Texas seed bill, to which the
gentleman from Wisconsin had alluded.
The veto of one was based on constitu-
tional grounds, while no one denied the
constitutional right of Congress TO pass
the other. The pending bill ought to pass.
1t was a companion piece of legislation to
the Mexican pension bill, not because it
was passed on the same day and in the
same way, but because 1t provided for the
payment of the same kind of pension tor
the same kind of disability.
THE PRESIDENTS PETITION.
He had been asked whether the Presi-
dent had ever signed petition asking
that pension be granted to all soldiers
OF the late war. He held in his hand
petition, drawn up in 1884, which was too
long to read now. 1t was numerously
signed, and in substance asked that
pension of at least $S a month be granted
to all bonorably discharged soldiers. 1t
contained this Endorsement:
am sure that the subject of this petition is
worthy of the prompt and careful cOnsldera-
tion of Congress, and the fullest justice should
be done to the parties In whose interest this
movement is made GROVER CLEVELAND.
AS Mr.. Matson concluded nearly every
Republican was on his feet, and as Mr..
Matson finished reading the Endorsement
loud burst OF applause came up from
the Republican side OF the chamber.
THE VETO SUSTAINED.
The question was then put, "Will the
House upon reconsideration pass the bill,
the Presidents objection to the contrary,
Notwithstanding" and it was decided in
the negative, the vote being 175 yeas to
125 nays-not the constitutional two
thirds in the affirmative.
Following is the detailed vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Adams of Illinois. Allen of
Massachusetts, Anderson of Kansas, Atkin-
son. Baker, Bayne, Bingham. Bliss, Bound.
Bouteile, Brady, Browne Of Indiana, Brown
of OHIO, Brown of Pennsylvania, Brumm.
Buck. Bunnell, Burleigh, Burrows. Butter
worth, Bynum, CampDell of Pennsylvania,
Campbell of Ohio, Cannon, Carleton. Caswell,
Congar, Cooper. Cutcheon, Davenport. DAVIS,
DIngley, Dorsey, Dunham. Eldridge. Ely,
Evans Evernart, Farquahar, FELTON,. Feeger.
Ford, Frederick, Fuller Funston, GalInger.
Geddes, Gilhllan, Gof, Grosvenor. GrOut,
Guenther, Hale, Hanback,, Harmer, Hayden,
Haynes. Henderson Of iowa, Hender-
son of Illinois, Hepburn. Herman,
Hiestand, Hires, Hiscock. Hit, Holman,
Holmes, Hopkins, Houk, Howard, Jackson,
james, johnson of New York, Johnston of
Indiana, Kelly, Ketchum, Kleiner, Lafolett,
Laird, Landes, Lawler. Lefevre, Lehbach,
Llbbey, Lindsiey, Little, Long. Lore, LoutIt,
Lowering. Lyman, Mahoney, Markham, Mat
son, Maybury, McComas, McKenna, McKln-
lev, Merriman, Millard, Mlllken, Monatt,
Morrill,, Morrow. Murphy Neece, Negley
Nelson O'Donnell. O'Hara, O'Neill of Penn
sylvania, O'Neil Of Missouri, 0 borne, Owen,
Parker, Payne. Payson, Perkins, Peters, Pet
tibone, Phelps. PIndAr, Plumb, Price, Ran
dali, Ranney. Rice. Riggs. Rockwell, Romeis,
Rowell, Ryan, sawyer, Scran on
seney, Sessions, smals. spooner'
SSprlgGs,, Steele, Stevenson Stewart OF
Strait. struble. Swinburn, Swope. Symes,
Tarsney. TauiD pee. E. b. Taylor of Ohio, Ike
Taylor Of Ohio. Zach Taylor of Tennessee.
Thomas OF Illinois, Thomas of Wisconsin,
" adsworth, Walt, Wakefield, Ward of
Illinois, Warner OF Missouri, Weaver of Ne
brasta, Weaver OF Iowa, Weber, West, White
OF Pennsylvania, White of Minnesota. Whit
ing, wilkins, Wolford, Woodburn and Worth
ington--l75.
NAYs-Messrs. Adams OF New York, Allen
Of Mississippi, Bacon, Ballentine. Barbour,
Barksdale, Barnes, Barry, Belmont, Bennett,
Blanchard, Bland, BlOunt, Boyle, Bragg
Breckenridge of Arkansas, Breckinridge OF
Kentucky, Burne4. Cabell, Caldwell, Felix
Campbell OF New York, Tim Campbell of New
YorK, Catchings, Clements, Cobb, Collins,
Compton, COmstock, Cowes, Cox of New
York, Cox of North Carolina. Cram, Crisp,
Culberson, Curtin, Daniel, Dorgan, Davidson
of Alabama, Davidson OF Florida, Dawson,
DiUbe, Dockery, Dougherty, Dunn, Eden,
Ermentrout, Findlay, Fisher, Forney, Gay
Gibson of Maryland. Gibson OF West Vir-
ginia, Glass, Green, Hall, llalsell, Hammond,
Harris, Hatch, Heard Hemphili,
Henderson of North Carolina, Her
bert, Hill. hudd, Hutton, Irion,
Johnston of North Carolina, Jones~eSr rIeXas,
Jones OF Alabama, King. skaaE fssssh ham,
Martin, McAdoo, McC 49, McMullen. Nc
Rea, Miller, Mills, Mitchell Morgan. Morr-
son. Muller, Neal, Norwood, Oates, O'Fcrrall,
| Outhwaite, Peel, Perry, Reagan, Reese,
Richardson, Robertson, rogers, Sayers, Scott,
seymour, Shaw, singleton. 5kinDer, snyder,
Texas, st. Martin, Stone OF Kentucky, Stone
of Missouri, storm, John NJ. Taylor OF Ten
nessee, rlllman, Trlgg, Tucker, Turner. Van
Eaton. Viele, Ward OF Indiana, Warner Of
Onio, Welborn, Wheeler, Willis, Wilson and
Wise--l25.
THE CHANGES.
Tho vote by which the bill originally
passed the House was 1S0 to rs, so it APP
years thet the following named members
all Observation-Disclosures their votes on
the measure: Messrs. Adams Of New
York, Bacon. Boyle. Burnes. Cobb, Cur
tin, Dawson, Dougherty, Eden, Ermen-
trout, Fisher, Gay, Gibson, Hall, Hatch,
Hill, ,McAdoo, Morrison, Outh waite, Scott.
Seymour. Shaw. SOWdeu. Springer. SLahl-